RE: Why Why?
November 5, 2021 at 7:07 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2021 at 7:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 5, 2021 at 3:36 am)slartibartfast Wrote: Why is it so important for human beings (some more than others) to find an answer to the question of why we exist?Well........
Quote:Coming back to my original question - why is it so hard for most people to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity, that they would rather clutch at any explanation (no matter how vague, unfulfilling and unlikely under even modest logical scrutiny) than be truly comfortable with simply not knowing? Is this just plain and simple human nature?B-mine. Yes, it's human nature. More particularly, the whys of a god are predictable and exploitable and that's the purpose of theistic gods...whereas how is a past tense description of nuts and bolts.
Still, I don't think it's so much a problem that the whys of life are uncertain or ambiguous - at least not with respect to how the faithful employ them..but that their whys are commonly atrocious. If the purpose of our existence is to be a bunch of insufferable pricks, as evangelical christianity insists - then uncertainty and ambiguity aren't really the issue.
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